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- From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
- Subject: DEC 3000 AXP delivery times
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:42:11 GMT
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- Has any end-user ordered and/or received an DEC 3000 AXP OSF/1 system so far?
-
- Delivery times for the "Early Ship Program" system is 75 days now.
- I've heard from other end-users who have received VMS AXP systems in
- a matter of days. I know OSF/1 AXP is not released officially until
- March, but I thought the point of having the ESP program was to get
- a system with beta software quickly!
-
- DEC also provides attractive upgrade prices ($99 per specmark minus
- "your applicable discount if any") for DECstation 5000 to 3000 AXPs.
- This is called the "Alpha ready" upgrade, and is valid for both new
- VAX/MIPS purchases, as well as some existing systems. However
- lead time for these are 180 days! Has anyone ordered/received one of
- these yet? Do the upgrades come with the internal 400MB disk? How
- much memory should we return with the 5000?
-
- Thanks
-
- Fred Velijanian
- University of California, Irvine
- fredv@uci.edu
-